.... On the way there, we would always drive past “Stallo,” a huge, pointy rock that my mother would ask my brother and I to greet. This was very important, she told us, if we wanted good luck on our journey. I learned later in life that stallo is the Sámi word for “troll.” Back then, I had no idea that “Stallo...

...Charlotta Svonni Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 HÅKAN DAHLSTRÖM HÅKAN DAHLSTRÖM The Sámi are the Indigenous peoples of Sweden. For thousands of years, we’ve lived in Sápmi, the Sámi traditional land that extends across northern Sweden, Norway, and Finland...

... network, hosts short news programs organization, broadcasts news in Finnish, Sámi, Romani, and programs in Chinese, English, Meänkieli. Many foreign programs German, and Russian, in addition...

... thousands of Norwegians to get in touch with their Sámi roots, and Julian Brave NoiseCat considers what the basis of a new Native activism might look like. History works in strange ways, NoiseCat observes in his essay. While many Native communities around the world share the traumas of colonialism, resource...

... “to further advancing the interests of the Sámi people and to realizing their right to self-determination.” The Declaration is not legally binding, but it still carries symbolic and real weight within the international legal community. According to former U.N. Special Rapporteur S. James Anaya...

... of foreigners like himself. People would casually voice their negative opinion of Jews, Catholics, Samis, and Pakistanis. He found some of his few friends among guest workers, who shared his loneliness. One day, one of them took him aside and confided, “They’re crushing me. It’s like they’ve got hold of my...

... & Giroux, 1998), V. P. Menon, The Transfer o f Power cellor, Maulana Sami ul-Hag. “What do you (Princeton: University Press, 1957); Philip Ziegler, think of Abraham Lincoln?” came the re­ Mountbatten (New York: Knopf, 1983); Rajmohan sponse. It is obvious that America’s...